Capileira – a village in the clouds
Last Sunday we rode the bus from Granada to Capileira, a small town of 600 in the Alpujarras mountains. It rained the whole two hours and a half, as the bus negotiated increasingly tighter curves […]
Archive for category: Europe
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Seduced by Granada
A three hour bus ride last Thursday (October 9) brought us to Granada, home of the world-famous Alhambra. The Alhambra is to Spain what the Taj Mahal is to India. With its location at 738 […]
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Two days in Sevilla
A bad start Our stay in Sevilla started on the wrong foot. First we discovered that the AirBnB apartment “with WiFi” that we had booked had no WiFi. This is bad for most travellers, but […]
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Cadiz – seaside Andalucia
My friend and I finally arrived in Cadiz Thursday night after flying overnight from Montreal to Malaga (via Paris) and taking a 4-hour bus trip to Cadiz. Although we were originally scheduled to spend our […]
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Discovering Ghent
My last day in Europe was spent in Ghent, an easy day trip from Brussels (50 minutes by train). With 250,000 people, Ghent is the second largest city in Belgium by population, but doesn’t feature […]
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Two days in Brussels
If I had to use one word to describe Brussels it would be eclectic. While not one of the great European capitals, it is nevertheless the capital of the European Union, with a population slightly […]
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House-sitting in Herentals, Belgium
Herentals is a small town (less than 30000 people) about 40 kms to the east of Antwerp. It’s located in the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, and has few tourists. I arrived here last Tuesday for […]
